Average Rating: 
Rating:  - the first cut was better
i don't buy this "director's cut" business. despite what critics have panned as a "forced voice-over", there are some important descriptive narratives in the original theatrical release. when bryant refers to replicants as "skin jobs" and we understand the derogatory implications via voice over, this is all lost without the narrative.
i want the original. plain and simple.
Rating:  - Bring back 'voice-over narration'!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm afraid this movie has been ruined,like George Lucas's 'Star Wars' remake,with the add-ins,that weren't there in the movies first presentation. Even if the voice-over narration is seriously cheesy,the point is that it was there in that period of time,and now has been removed. I purposely give this a one 'star' because of the deletation of the narration,and please get rid of that 'Unicorn',please!
Rating:  - Pondering Life
What if, as a person, you came into this world fully-grown, fully aware, experiencing life to its fullest -- but were to die in just a few years? In that time there could be no family, no grandchildren, and no debilitating diseases to signal the pending of one's demise. The curtain would close - at the height of one's existence.What if, as a woman, you were also thrusted into the world fully developed -- mature physically, but an emotional novice - and that you allowed yourself to be molded to the satisfaction of your man's desires? It takes a while to get there, but that is what the movie 'Blade Runner' - based upon the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by that classic sci-fi writer, Phillip K. Dick - is all about. The film, made in 1982, pictures life in Los Angeles in 2018. (Even though we're halfway there, we're not even close to achieving the technological advancements depicted.) Harrison Ford, much younger, is the hero. He is a "blade runner," someone who kills the replicants (fake humans relegated to other worlds) when they trespass on Earth. The special effects, although dated and looking like something out of 'Battlestar Galactica', are still excellent. The look of the movie is dark and brooding, like 'Alien', another of Ridley Scott's works. Three replicants come to Earth and Harrison goes to meet them. He kills a few, and falls in love with another. There's some erotically gruesome slow motion death scenes of beautiful, scantily-clad women (Daryl Hannah one of them) being shot in the back and in the gut, oozing innards a la Sam Peckinpah-style, which is ok since they're replicants. Rutger Hauer, who looks like Paul Newman, gives the most touching performance as he struggles to come to grips with the end. The movie is futuristic - but actually much deeper -- which is probably why it's achieved an almost cult-like status. This is a great feature if one wishes to ponder - the meaning of life itself. Don't miss it!
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